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Six Common Pitfalls (and Solutions) of Effective Community Engagement
As a transportation planning and engineering firm, we exist to improve people’s daily lives with better and safer transportation. The only way we can do…
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Three Ways E-Scooters Could Make Cities Safer + More Equitable
The most recent e-scooter you’ve seen may have been entertainment on someone’s vacation, or a feature in a brunchtime Instagram story. Or, it may have…
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A 105-Year History of the Electric Traffic Signal
2019 marks the 105th anniversary of the electric traffic signal, so let’s travel back in time to the very first signal system… which takes us…
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Curbside Management on Urban Streets, Part One: The Value of the Curb
Once just a place for parking near your destination, today’s urban curbs have become a lively, non-stop interaction of countless modes of transportation, from cars,…
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Planning-Level Capacity Adjustments for Connected and Automated Vehicles: The Future is Now
Self-driving truck platoons are delivering goods, auto manufacturers and ride-share providers are racing to be the first to distribute autonomous vehicles to customers, and connected…
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Keeping a Unified Culture Across 25 Offices
Our company mantra has always been to hire motivated people and give them freedom to pursue their passions. When Wayne Kittelson founded Kittelson & Associates,…
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Resilience Planning: Making Streets Nimble for Future Generations
When the nimbleness of a transportation network is tested, it’s rarely by an expected event—which is why it’s critical for communities to plan for the…
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What Fort Lauderdale Teaches Us About Regulating E-Scooters
E-scooter companies expanded from one city to 71 cities in the United States in just 15 months. (For a visual illustration of this expansion, check…
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The Intersection of Transportation and Health
APA National Planning Conference Session Brings Light to Common Health Challenges The way we move around—in terms of transportation choices as well as physical…
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Making Your Marketing Team Your Creative Partner
Tips for collaboration between marketing coordinators and technical staff What needs to happen for marketing activities to get the attention and momentum they need…
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Five Takeaways from the 2019 ASCE Legislative Fly-In
More than 250 members of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) convened for the organization’s annual Legislative Fly-In March 12 – 14, 2019. Attendees…
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Expanding Transportation Options Can Improve Quality of Life
Every weekday morning in Seattle, a programmer drives a Car2Go from her neighborhood to a light rail station. In Baltimore, a graphic designer uses a…
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Pick Up Your Bike With Us During Bike Month!
For the past 63 years, May has been officially designated as Bike Month around the nation. We’re not surprised—May has an average high temperature of…
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How Lyft and Uber Affect Transportation Patterns
The United States has some of the worst traffic congestion in the developed world: in 2017, drivers here spent an average of 41 hours stuck…
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The Why, What, and How of Planning for Operations
We’re two planners who have come to realize that being good planners means thinking more like non-planners. What do we mean? Good planning considers the…
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The Story of the Temporary Roundabouts After Hurricane Florence
There was no way to fully prepare for the wettest tropical cyclone on record in the Carolinas. Hurricane Florence made landfall in September 2018. A…
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What Does Traffic Calming Calm?
The speed of drivers? The number of drivers? The impatience of drivers? The stress level of residents?
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The Importance of the Equity Lens in Transportation Planning and Design
An equity lens helps planners and designers see the needs of every person potentially served or impacted by every transportation decision. It’s best applied when…
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Honoring the Life & Legacy of John Zegeer
With heavy hearts, we announce the passing of John Zegeer, former Senior Principal Engineer at Kittelson—a dedicated colleague, a trusted mentor, and a dear friend…
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How Machine Learning Data is Changing Our Streets
Machine learning has been an important tool for several decades. It has been used for diverse tasks such as handwriting recognition, patient monitoring, facial recognition,…
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Five Themes That Emerged from the 2019 TRB Annual Meeting
The 98th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board just wrapped up in Washington, D.C. The brisk (and snowy) air may have had something to…
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Reflections on a Visit Back to Amsterdam
Today, I walked through some streets of Amsterdam on my way to the American Consulate. Having lived in the United States for more than a…
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